March 8, 2013 was a special day for me. And the point is not that this was a women's day. And not even international, as someone might think. It was special because that day marked the tenth anniversary of my stay in China. Do I have anything to say about this? Do not doubt. I have a lot, so there will be more than one post. But first, I want to describe my six stages of the Great Chinese Road. So ten years ago I came to China. I didn't get there in a very original way.

Abstract: If you don't like it, don't read it. It's about property and the presumption of guilt associated with it. Saint Francis, the founder of the Franciscan order, after whom San Francisco and the current Pope are named, once expressed the idea that possessing property interferes with serving the Lord God. I find his remark very wise, since property really gets you up to your ears in all worldly affairs, first of all because you can accidentally part with it.

How emergency services and emergency notification services work in Perm is clearly demonstrated by the situation that is now playing out in the regional center. In different microdistricts there is a strong, suffocating smell of gas. At the same time, worried residents cannot reach emergency services by calling 112 (Ministry of Emergency Situations) and 04 (emergency gas service).

Employees of the Nadym Perinatal Center, where from June 19 to 25 four babies died from an intrahospital infection, made an appeal to city residents and the media, a Znak.com correspondent reports. In the letter, which was signed by 37 people, doctors say that the emergence of the source of the infection that killed children (the intestinal bacterium Klebsiella pneumonia) was facilitated by the lack of regular funding for major repairs of sewer networks over the past 30 years.

About 150 people were detained in Surgut during a special operation, which was carried out the day before by FSB officers, the migration service, police and special forces. As a Znak.com correspondent reports, the event, large-scale by local standards, was held on the territory of the Aksania shopping complex, where a large number of visitors from Central Asian countries and natives of the North Caucasus work. The operation began suddenly.

The Life News portal is publishing new “incriminating evidence” against Andrei Votyakov, a doctor at the Perm Federal Center for Cardiovascular Surgery, who became disgraced after a video showing him beating post-operative patient Nikolai Kuleshov became public knowledge.

Suddenly! The management of the Perm-36 museum still refuses to hold the Sawmill forum and explains the reasons, despite the desire of businessmen to finance the event. “In fact, we are very grateful to Basargin...” The scandalous story with the closure of the Sawmill-2013 forum, which has been held on the basis of the Perm-36 museum since 2005, took a very unexpected turn.

The driver of the Daewoo Nexia, who hit 2-year-old Volodya Sochnin in the Soritirova microdistrict in Yekaterinburg, was detained and placed in a temporary detention center. The issue of choosing a preventive measure for him is now being decided, Valery Gorelykh, head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Sverdlovsk Region, told Znak.com.

Kazakhstan has officially proposed to Russia to revive the project to transfer part of the Volga flow to the Ural River. The Kazakhs are in trouble with the Urals, the flow has dropped sharply, a little more and irreversible changes will occur. There is so much missing that it is impossible to do without the Volga. The idea is not new; in the 50s they even began to build a special canal from the Volga to the Urals, but then they abandoned it and the project remained unrealized.

Famous Russian writers signed an open letter to the Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg in defense of journalist, editor of Znak.com Aksana Panova, who now faces 15 years in prison for trumped-up criminal cases based on false denunciations. The appeal was signed by such famous writers as Boris Akunin, Andrei Bitov, Mikhail Weller, Vladimir Vishnevsky, Boris Evseev, Viktor Erofeev, Yuliy Kim, Lyudmila Petrushevskaya, Mark Rozovsky, Alexey Simonov, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Viktor Shenderovich.

In the elections for the head of the Zverinogolovsky district of the Kurgan region, he is the first official contender. By self-nomination, documents for participation in the election of the head were submitted to the election commission by the 55-year-old director of the MCOU “Trudovskaya Secondary School”, deputy of the district Duma, Kamila Zhimbaeva. Information about this is contained on the website of the election commission of the Kurgan region.

There was a terrible murder in the Kurgan region. His victim was the 53-year-old head of the Ozhoginsky village council of the Shatrovsky district, a member of United Russia, Aleftina Verbitskaya, who at a meeting of the village duma was shot by her cousin with a sawed-off shotgun, and then tried to finish off with a knife. The tragedy occurred in front of the deputies, who could not stop the killer. Details are on Znak.com.

The Ugra authorities intend to hold a repeat auction for the repair of the road surface of the bridge across the Ob in the Surgut region, connecting the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug, Yamal and the “mainland”. An announcement from the government procurement department of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug about holding an auction on July 29 appeared on the government procurement website. Interestingly, the contract price remained virtually the same.

The Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Yamal Court confirmed the decision of the Salekhard City Court on the legality of the dismissal of the head of the budget policy department of the district finance department, Andrei Gabura, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation told Znak.com. Gabura himself insisted on reinstatement. Disagreeing with the dismissal, he filed a lawsuit in court to declare the said order illegal.

A group of State Duma deputies proposes to move Russia Day from June 12 to another, more memorable date for the country. The initiators of the bill - United Russia member Evgeny Fedorov and the parliamentary club "Russian Sovereignty" headed by him (according to Fedorov, it includes 25 deputies from different factions) are preparing amendments to Article 112 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation "Non-working holidays", Izvestia reports.